Passing variabl to a shell task

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dmill

Hello guy,

I'm using Activiti-rest and having a hard time figuring out how to use variables in a shell task.

I create a process instance using POST runtime/process-instances:

{
   'processDefinitionId':'xxxxx',
   'variables' : [
     {'name' : 'myVar', 'value' : 'something'}
   ]
}
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And my process definition contains:

<serviceTask id="console" activiti:type="shell" >
   <extensionElements>
      <activiti:field name="command" stringValue="echo" /> 
      <activiti:field name="arg1" stringValue="${scriptVar}" />  
   </extensionElements>
</serviceTask>
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But this doesn't work. The process runs properly otherwise.

Any help would be appreciated.

dmill

Let me just correct that, I'm obviously using ${myVar}. Sorry for the confusion, still need help though.